A weighted average is a more accurate measurement of scores or investments that are of relative importance to each other. This is often the case with investment portfolios, grade scoring and other statistics. You can find out how to calculate weighted averages.ist the weight next to the number. 1  Percentages are common because weights are often a percentage of a total of 100. 2  If you are figuring out the weighted average of grades, investments and other financial data, look for the percentage of the occurrence out of 100.
More forceful whippings, like those often administered to slaves in pre-Civil War America, are much more dangerous. Lashes with a leather instrument or paddle and a full range of motion have the potential to cause permanent damage to the internal organs and muscles, severe blood loss, shock, and maybe death.
As with all punishment, the motivation is to either punish the offender or to ensure that there is no re-offence, either by the offender or by others who would be properly detered by the threat of similar punishment. The death penalty is the most drastic form of corporal punishment and is also called capital punishment. Some schools still use a strap to punish and correct students. Some countries still punish habitual thieves by cutting off a hand. These are forms of corporal punishment, as is any form of spanking, whipping or bodily mutilation inflicted as punishment.